Netizen 24 MYS: Najib: BN created over two million jobs since 2013

Datuk Seri Najib Razak visit booth after launch MyApprenticeship programme in Kuala Lumpur April 20, 2018. â" Picture by Azneal IshakKUALA LUMPUR, April 20 â" The Barisan Nasional (BN) administration has created over two million jobs since 2013 and is expected to create a million more through various programmes, its chairman Datuk Seri Najib Razak said today.

The caretaker prime minister said the number of employment opportunities created alone had already surpassed Pakatan Harapanâs pledge to give youths a million jobs if it were to come to power, as unveiled in the latterâs 14th general election manifesto recently.

âWe can be proud of our achievements,â Najib told the audience at the 2018 MyApprenticeship programme opening here.

âWe have created 2.26 million jobs, which is very close to our target of creating three million jobs in five years.

âAnd through MyApprenticeship, as many as a million more jobs will be created, which is already far greater than the one million jobs pledged by the Opposition in their manifesto,â he added.

The MyApprenticeship programme launched today is meant to help first-time job seekers get practical training, with the eventual option for employment.

Both BN and PH have made job creation a key pledge in their respective GE14 manifestos in an appare nt bid to woo young voters, a key electorate.

Up to a third of the countryâs over 17 million electorate are young, first-time voters, and close to half are aged 35 and below.

Job creation was among the 12 key pledges outlined in PHâs manifesto, with the rest touching on economic growth, affordable housing, the abolishment of highway tolls, free education, a minimum wage hike, institutional reform, corruption and an improvement of the quality of public service.

Najib and BN leaders have responded with claims that the cost to implement PHâs pledges would surpass RM1 trillion.